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Washington
Examiner
Portman:
Abortion clinics marketing
to minors
By Michal Conger, Staff Writer
February 6, 2013
Abortion
clinics are marketing
their services to minors in states with parental consent laws, drawing
them to states
where they can get an abortion without their parents’ permission,
according to
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio.
“Ohio
and the majority of other
states require parents’ involvement if their minor children have an
abortion,”
Portman said in a Jan. 24 statement. “Yet, 13 states and the District
of
Columbia do not have such laws on the books.
Minors who live in the states bordering
on these outliers are often
transported across state lines for abortions as a way to get around
their
home-state parental involvement requirements.”
Portman
asserted abortion clinics
in states with lax laws are targeting minors across state lines by
advertising
that they require “no parental consent” at their clinics.
He
introduced the Child Custody
Protection Act in January, which would make it illegal to transport a
minor
across state lines for an abortion if doing so would circumvent
parental
consent laws.
PolitiFact
Ohio picked up Portman’s
claim on Wednesday. After doing its own digging, PolitiFact gave the it
the
green light:
Portman’s
office showed us other
ads, from New York, New Jersey and Illinois, that stated “no parental
consent”
required. Some of the ads were nearly a decade old, others more recent.
Based
on this and our own Web searches, it appeared that Portman was correct
in at
least one regard — that some abortion clinics in states that don’t have
parental-consent laws were informing minors in other states of their
parental-consent options...
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